Book Note

• The Wall Street Bailout: An Insider’s View by Robert Rhodes

Correspondence

• Owning Financialization by Michael Roberts
• The Critique of Financialization by The Editors
• What Happened at CCSF? by Allan Fisher, Wynd Kaufmyn, Marcy Rein and Rick Baum
• The Term ‘Capitalism’ Has Lost Its Radical Edge by Fred Block and The Editors
• Not Naming Names by Michael Meeropol
• The Limits of Minsky’s Financial Instability Hypothesis as an Explanation of the Crisis by Thomas I. Palley
• Listen Keynesians, It’s the System! Response to Palley by John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney
• Prophets of the ‘Permanent War Economy’ by Ernest Haberkern
• A Guaranteed Annual Income Will Not Work by Ken Collier
• Dual Power in the Venezuelan Revolution by George Ciccariello-Maher
• Empire—American as Apple Pie by Kent A. MacDougall

Documents

• On the Coincidence of Logic with Dialectics and the Theory of Knowledge of Materialism by Evald Ilyenkov
• The Social Character of Value by Rosa Luxemburg
• ‘The Deadly Implications of Capital for the Human Habitat’ by Paul M. Sweezy
• On English Farming and Sewers by Justus von Liebig
• 1862 Preface to Agricultural Chemistry by Justus von Liebig
• Ecology and Revolution by Paul M. Sweezy
• The Nabi Papers by Isador Nabi

Excerpts

• An Untold Chapter in Black History by Safiya Bukhari
• What Race Has to Do With It by Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers
• Why Unions Still Matter by Michael D. Yates
• The Path to Human Development: Capitalism or Socialism? by Michael A. Lebowitz

Exchange

• Socialist Internationalism Against the European Union by Neil Davidson
• Navigating the Brexit Strait by Andy Storey
• Learning from Brexit by Costas Lapavitsas
• Marx, Animals, and Humans by Ted Benton
• Marx and the Critique of Alienated Speciesism by John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark and Christian Stache
• Climate Change: What Role For Reform? by Christian Parenti
• A Reply to Parenti by The Editors
• Reply to “The Myth of ‘Environmental Catastrophism'” by Eddie Yuen and Ian Angus
• What Does Ecological Marxism Mean For China? by Zhihe Wang, Meijun Fan, Hui Dong, Dezhong Sun and Lichun Li
• Toward a Global Dialogue on Ecology and Marxism by John Bellamy Foster
• Marx and Engels and ‘Small Is Beautiful’ & A Response by Samar Bagchi, John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoff

Interview

• German Deunification by Ingar Solty and Darko Vujica
• Science and Politics by Hilary Rose, Steven Rose and Katherine L. Bryant
• Evald Ilyenkov and Soviet Philosophy by Andrey Maidansky and Vesa Oittinen
• Liberated Capitalism by Henryk Szlajfer and Grzegorz Konat
• Beyond Boundaries by Selma James and Ron Augustin
• Fighting for Migrant Workers in Hong Kong by Eni Lestari and Promise Li
• The Unifying Element in All Struggles Against Capital Is the Right of Everyone to Full Human Development by Michael A. Lebowitz
• The Assassination of Fred Hampton by the FBI and Chicago Police, Forty Years Later by Jeffrey Hass
• Saying More with Less: Eduardo Galeano interviewed by Jonah Raskin by Jonah Raskin
• United States of Insecurity: Interview with Noam Chomsky by Noam Chomsky and Gabriel Matthew Schivone
• Possibility and Hope: Getting from Here to There by Linda C. Forbes and Pete Seeger

Introduction

• The Drain of Wealth by Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik
• The Contagion of Capital by John Bellamy Foster, R. Jamil Jonna and Brett Clark
• The Return of Nature and Marx’s Ecology by John Bellamy Foster and Alejandro Pedregal
• Engels’s Dialectics of Nature in the Anthropocene by John Bellamy Foster
• China 2020: An Introduction by John Bellamy Foster
• Examining the Wreckage by Nick Estes and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
• Late Imperialism by John Bellamy Foster
• The Robbery of Nature by John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark

Memorial

• Bill Livant (May 24, 1932-June 2, 2008) by Ben Livant
• Harry Magdoff, August 21, 1913-January 1, 2006 by Harry Magdoff

Notes from the Editors

• April 2021 (Volume 72, Number 11) by The Editors
• March 2021 (Volume 72, Number 2) by The Editors
• February 2021 (Volume 72, Number 8) by The Editors
• January 2021 (Volume 72, Number 8) by The Editors
• December 2020 (Volume 72, Number 7) by The Editors
• November 2020 (Volume 72, Number 6) by The Editors
• October 2020 (Volume 72, Number 5) by The Editors
• September 2020 (Volume 72, Number 4) by The Editors
• July-August 2020 (Volume 72, Number 3) by The Editors
• June 2020 (Volume 72, Number 2) by The Editors
• May 2020 (Volume 72, Number 1) by The Editors

Poetry

• History comes in bad cycles by Marge Piercy
• I wake to the possible by Marge Piercy
• The great denial by Marge Piercy
• I wake every day to this by Marge Piercy
• The good-for-business wars by Marge Piercy
• Culling the herd by Marge Piercy
• And then, I think about war by Linda Backiel
• Another Gray Afternoon in Guernica by Kenneth Salzmann
• This is our legacy by Marge Piercy
• Green Card by Kenneth Salzmann
• Straggling onward by Marge Piercy

Remembrance

• Credo of a Passionate Skeptic by Adrienne Rich
• Two Letters on Monopoly Capital Theory by Paul A. Baran and Paul M. Sweezy
• Aimé Fernand Césaire (1913-2008): The Clarity of Struggle by John J. Simon
• The Death and Life of Che by John J. Simon
• Magic Death for a Magic Life by Eduardo Galeano
• With Thanks to Hans Koning by Elizabeth (Betita) Martinez
• Remembering John Kenneth Galbraith by Martha Sweezy

Reprise

• Sex and Socialism by Ann Snitow, Christine Stansell and Sharon Thompson
• U.S. Weakness and the Struggle for Hegemony by Immanuel Wallerstein
• A New Revolutionary Subject by Marta Harnecker and Tassos Tsakiroglou
• The Political Economy of Women’s Liberation by Margaret Benston
• Mapping Gender in African-American Political Strategies by Leith Mullings
• A Note on the Communist Manifesto by Harry Magdoff
• The Debs Way by Leo Huberman
• A Black Feminist Statement by The Combahee River Collective
• Posture Maketh the Man by Stephen Jay Gould
• The Propaganda Model Revisited by Edward S. Herman
• Marxism for the Few by Doug Dowd

Review

• What Sort of Kinetic Materialism Did Marx Find in Epicurus? by Boris Hennig
• Engels’s Ecologically Indispensable if Incomplete Dialectics of Nature by Paul Blackledge
• These Brothers Chose Well by Michael D. Yates
• Socialist Practice and Transition by Steve Ellner
• Was Folk Music a Commie Plot? by Mat Callahan
• What We Recovered in the Revolution by Camila Valle
• On Creative Destruction, Myths, and Revolution by David B. Feldman
• Fighting the “Immigrant Threat” Narrative by Lola Loustaunau
• Standing with Standing Rock, Then and Now by Zoltán Grossman
• Decolonization in Practice by Leontina M. Hormel
• The Left and the Class Struggle by Paul Buhle

Review of the Month

• Repairing the Soil Carbon Rift by Fred Magdoff
• The Ideology of Late Imperialism by Zhun Xu
• The Renewal of the Socialist Ideal by John Bellamy Foster
• COVID-19 and Catastrophe Capitalism by John Bellamy Foster and Intan Suwandi
• COVID-19 and Circuits of Capital by Rob Wallace, Alex Liebman, Luis Fernando Chaves and Rodrick Wallace
• The Rift of Éire by John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark
• Hyman Minsky at 100: Was Minsky a Communist? by Riccardo Bellofiore
• Marx and the Indigenous by John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark and Hannah Holleman
• Liberating Women from “Political Economy” by Tithi Bhattacharya
• Capitalism and Robbery by John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark and Hannah Holleman
• On Fire This Time by John Bellamy Foster